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It's always loss
…and/or DNS
and/or your mom.
And/or the bus driver
Explain, please.
Well, that was a dive down a rabbithole.
Thanks for the explanation.
I thought it was some kind of computer code or a type of puzzle.
I never understood why this is funny. Are miscarriages funny somehow?
I think there’s a few elements to it. The biggest part of it is that this comic artist had never done comics in this tone and the artist was already getting memed pretty often for generally “not that funny” jokes.
When this came out, it gave everyone whiplash because, well, who the fuck decided to make a comic about their wife’s miscarriage? I would get it to have a plain text media post or similar, but that was an odd step to take. IMO, that’s not something I’d casually drop in your otherwise innocuous comic strip.
Then the internet did its thing and the rest is history.
Ah. So
- Comic author is generally flippant
- Author writes about loss still felt for the death of a potential child years before.
- Author flamed for - checks notes - karma whoring for empathy and reflection because that's not the kind of dancing they want their monkey to do.
Are we seriously penalizing an author for the first time he gets serious about something and reaches out with feelings? What kind of "mama is it time to build the wall?" kind of 'men-bad' persecution is this? How DARE he show a moment's emotional development in his writing?!? It can ONLY be selfish and exploitative because #kneejerk.
We can be better, people.
It's legacy is that it's more accepted now. I broadly agree though. I still get annoyed when I think of that turbo cunt Fahey from Kotaku calling it "miscarriage of comic publishing". What an unbelievable fucking cunt, considering kotaku is basically incredibly unfunny and unentertaining
It's not funny in now way, the whole trend was to sneak the Loss pattern into every possible meme, so it was more like a got you Rick rolled.
It's... wait for it... it's "6 7"!!
It was as severe of a tone shift as a miscarriage in the middle of a Dora the Explorer episode. Also, iirc the artist wasn’t having a personal miscarriage drama in real life, he just suddenly wanted an edgier plot line for his unfunny comic, so people started making fun of him for it.
Now it’s just a pattern recognition joke.
The creator did go through an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage with an ex-girlfriend in college. The relationship was toxic according to him and this happened years before loss was published.
TIL, thanks!
Wrong wrong wrong.
IMO it was never funny, it was actually pretty damned awful. The actual original piece was art and beat the shit out of the heart-strings. As it made it's rounds for being profound in a comic, people got tired of seeing it immediately as it was so fucking sad and not funny. The internet turned it into a rick-roll, a goatse. When people got made with it they turned it into a puzzle, so that once you figured it out, you'd be angry and trigger a bit. It's a troll.
This comic piece at the head of this post is a touch better than most. no one would come to the rescue when she asked for help, but posting the loss meme people would parachute in for, which is mostly what's happening all over this thread... soooo.. it is what it is, the original was probably best described as touching and sad, the response to it was assanine and the meta responses to it, while calling it out in new and fashionable ways, are still triggering.
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Pretty sure it's Loss.
Loss of what? Still don't get it.
Ok, she made a reference to this particular meme. Still don't get the joke. Why out of a sudden all started to arrive?
Loss memes never have any sense, just try to not roll you eyes too hard and move on.
Original was about her offering sex or something. This edit is purposefully a bit absurd
People on the Internet get really excited to post "is this loss" when they notice it in a meme. So that seems to be the reference here.
6-7
Loss of control
(Guitar solo)
Aw ha!
Jack Shephard was the doctor that delivered the news? Wow, deep lore